Summit between US President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington. The treaty on the abolition of medium-range missiles (INF) is signed.more
9 December
1987
Manfred Wörner (CDU) is appointed as the new NATO Secretary-General (from 1 June 1988).
11 December
1987
Meeting between leading representatives of the Warsaw Pact states in East Berlin. The Soviet party and state leader Gorbachev reports on the INF negotiations in Vienna.
12 December
1987
As part of an amnesty for the 38th anniversary of the GDR, altogether 24,621 prisoners have been released from prison this year.
